Are you still using the built-in Windows administration tools to manage your Windows 200x or Active Directory environment? SystemTools Hyena is designed to both simplify and centralize nearly all day-to-day management tasks, while providing new capabilities for system administration.

We are looking for a tool that would add users to an AD group based on the volume listed in the home directory path. It looks like Hyena and ADManager Plus might have these capabilities. Would anybody recommend one over the other or know another program that they think is better?

I would like to use applocker to block access for all domain users (except 10 End User support domain ids) from
accessing the following apps :

a) cmd.exe (which can be named as something else as a user may copy cmd.exe to another name, say cmm.exe)
b) mmc.exe
c) PowerShell

Q1:
Kindly provide step by step (with screen shots if possible) on how to configure the above

Q2:
Not feasible for me to go PC (or laptop) by PC to set this. Do provide a mass deployment method. We have
SCCM & Desktop Central so if the rules/policies can be saved & mass 'pushed' to all the PCs, will be good
to provide the steps

Q3:
Is applocker free for use as long as we have a Win 7 (or Win 8) licence (as in our case)?

I would like to check if specific proxy service (sc queryex ProxyClientSvc) is running on
the 3000 PCs/laptops in our organization.

A past SCCM administrator was able to push installers (*.msi) to the 3000 PCs & install it
but our new SCCM administrator told me it's not possible to issue Windows commands
(eg: dir, sc queryex ...) from SCCM to the PCs. Is this so?

I've used a HP product in the past which could issue OS commands (Windows & UNIX)
to hundreds/thousands of PCs & UNIX endpoints & get the outputs for all the endpoints
back in one single output file which indicates the hostname/IP of each endpoints, the
output for each points segregated by ======= between each endpoints' output

Q1:
If it can be done by SCCM, can someone can give me a step by step instruction (with
screen shots) so that I can share with the new SCCM administrator? The exact SCCM
command I wanted to issue is:
sc queryex ProxyClientSvc | find/i "Running"
if %errorlevel% neq 0 echo service is not running

Q2:
Possible to run Windows .bat or .cmd scripts or PowerShell scripts via SCCM to be
executed to all endpoints & then get the output back?

Are you still using the built-in Windows administration tools to manage your Windows 200x or Active Directory environment? SystemTools Hyena is designed to both simplify and centralize nearly all day-to-day management tasks, while providing new capabilities for system administration.